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We've got a Thunderbird for Android "Two for Tuesday!" Play two songs from your favorite band while you read our latest progress report (blog.thunderbird.net/2023/12/tโ€ฆ). There's lots of news, updates, and community contributions to end 2023!

While we hoped to release Thunderbird for Android by now, we realized you deserve the best mobile e-mail we can give you. Read about our decision to let the newest Thunderbird take its time to hatch:
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/12/wโ€ฆ

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Android

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Well, K-9 was a very good mailer on Android. Hopefully it will only get better.
But please, get rid of shoving us threaded view though our throats! Put a disable treaded view for all account in the general settings!
I absolutely loathe threaded view, and after each updat it's back globally in all accounts and folders.....
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Nice idea to keep the K-9 flavor.

So i guess it also will be still available via F-Droid.

And it will also be possible to install both flavors at the same time, right?!?

in reply to Nordnick

@nick How can you not love a little robot dog! We're happy he's sticking around.

And yes, both apps will be on F-Droid and yes, you can have both installed alongside each other!

in reply to Alessio Sclocco

@isazi We're glad we could use our powers of influence for good! We hope you're enjoying it now - and keep enjoying it once the transition is finished!
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

for the name and logo thing you could also meet in between, perhaps? Have the Android counterpart to Thunderbird be "Bolthound" or something, keeping the dog theme and following the Firefox/Thunderbird naming convention. Bonus: the bolt would refer to a lightningbolt, mirroring Thunderbird's, well, thunder.
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

That is awesome! I believe I've been using Thunderbird for Linux since about 2000 which is when I professionally left Windows. Congratulations!
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

I'm looking forward to trying :thunderbird: Mobile on my :lineageos: Tablet via F-Droid once it's finished & released. As a longtime user having an :android: build would be awesome.
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Better to take some more time to prepare a proper release โ€“ looking forward to it and kudos for keeping Thunderbird on @fdroidorg.

Still, any news about future encryption options, especially via #OpenPGP? Pretty much all #Android email clients rely on #Openkeychain to manage all your keys. Sadly it is still unmaintained and desperately needs a replacement or someone to take over development. Look at issues like this: github.com/open-keychain/open-โ€ฆ
#Thunderbird for Android will also rely on this unmaintained app.

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in reply to CryptGoat

@cryptgoat @fdroidorg Hey there! Thanks for this question, and we've brought it to the Thunderbird for Android team. It's close to our end of year break, so if we can't answer before then, ping us on January 2!
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

I thinks it is no good idea to keep K-9 around, because it will decrease the ranking of Thunderbird on Google Play and therefore it's visibility.
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